Quebec’s health minister announced Monday the province has confirmed its first case of the new COVID-19 variant known as Omicron that has spread to several countries and put health officials around the world on heightened alert.
One of Canada’s most high-profile weather forecasters says the extreme storms that have pummelled parts of the country over the past month may be a sign of what lies ahead for the upcoming winter.
Alberta’s top doctor says her department is contacting people who’ve recently arrived from one of the southern Africa countries of interest for the Omicron COVID-19 variant and they must quarantine for two weeks.
The World Health Organization says the global risk from the omicron variant of the coronavirus is ‘very high’ based on early evidence, and it could lead to surges with ‘severe consequences.’